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" It is almost incredible how much ground the devil takes when he has once made sin a matter of controversy: some are of one mind, and some of another; you are of one opinion, and I am of another. If it were ever a controversy whether drunkenness, sexual promiscuity, swearing, stealing, or any villainy were a sin or not, it would be committed more commonly and with much less regret of conscience. By this means, good men themselves are dangerously disabled to resist sin, and are more prepared to commit it. Take heed lest the devil cast you into this sleep of carnal security. "
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield , Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ
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" John Owen brings helpful detail to our discussion about sin and temptation. According to Owen, temptation is “any thing, state, way, or condition that, upon any account whatsoever, has a force or efficacy to seduce, to draw the mind and heart of a man from its obedience, which God requires of him, into any sin, in any degree of it whatsoever.”20 Note that any temptation can lead a person into any sin. It is a force. And forces must be reckoned with, not passively accepted. "
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield , Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ